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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a British film of genre Drama directed by Ronald Neame released in USA on 2 march 1969 with Maggie Smith
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 2 march 1969
Length 1h56
Directed by Ronald Neame
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Drama
Rating75%
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British-American drama DeLuxe Color film, based on the novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.
The novel was turned into a play by Jay Presson Allen that opened in London in 1966 with Vanessa Redgrave and on Broadway in 1968, with Zoe Caldwell in the title role, a performance for which she won a Tony Award. This production was a moderate success, running for just less than a year, but it has been a popular play since then, often staged by both professional and amateur companies.
Allen adapted her play into a film, which was directed by Ronald Neame. Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. There was also a notable performance from Pamela Franklin as Sandy, for which she won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress. It was entered in the 1969 Cannes Film Festival. Rod McKuen was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song for "Jean", but lost to Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from another 20th Century Fox film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. "Jean" also became a huge hit for the singer Oliver in the autumn of 1969.
The film was released on DVD in the UK by Acorn Media in July 2010.
Synopsis
Jean Brodie (Maggie Smith) is a teacher in the junior-aged section of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland in the 1930s. Brodie is known for her tendency to stray from the hard knowledge of the school's curriculum, to romanticize fascist leaders like Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco, and to believe herself to be in the prime of life. Brodie devotes her time and energy to her four special 12-year-old junior school girls, called the Brodie Set: Sandy (Pamela Franklin), Monica (Shirley Steedman), Jenny (Diane Grayson) and Mary (Jane Carr).Actors
Maggie Smith
(Jean Brodie)
Robert Stephens
(Teddy Lloyd)
Celia Johnson
(Miss Mackay)
Pamela Franklin
(Sandy)
Gordon Jackson
(Gordon Lowther)
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